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Mála Poist (Free article)
29 October 2009
Cuireann An Phoblacht fáilte roimh litreacha ónár léitheoirí. Scríobh i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla, 200 focal ar a méid. Déantar giorrú ar litreachta más gá. Cuir do litir chuig [email protected] An Phoblacht welcomes readers' letters. Write in Irish or English, 200 words maximum. Letters may be edited for brevity. Send your letters to…
Donegal grants chaos will force students out of college, says Pearse Doherty (Free article)
29 October 2009
EDUCATION MINISTER Batt O'Keeffe's failure to help sort out the delays caused by Government cuts in County Donegal in processing student grants in time for the university term means many third-level students are unregistered and will be left without access to a host of college services until January, Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty has told the…
The Mitchel McLaughlin Column (Free article)
29 October 2009
WITH the textile industry and other sectors of traditional employment having all but disappeared in the north-west, a radical approach to the development of the further and higher education sector could hold the key to the economic regeneration of this region.
Copenhagen - Rich countries try to evade climate responsibility (Free article)
29 October 2009
With less than 40 days to go until the crucial United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in December, political divisions between the global North and South over a new emissions reduction deal are hardening. The Copenhagen climate conference aims to formulate a global climate treaty to reduce carbon emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol.…
Frame-up victim challenges compensation ruling (Free article)
29 October 2009
SOUTH BELFAST man John Boyle is challenging the British Secretary of State over his refusal to pay him compensation for wrongful imprisonment. Boyle was framed by RUC detectives and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in 1977 but in April 2003 his conviction was quashed after it was investigated by the Criminal Cases Review Commission CCRC).
International: Afghanistan (Free article)
29 October 2009
What now for Hamid Karzai? He was the poster-boy of 'new democracy' and the icon of 'nation-building', that most patronising of Western projects, wherein 'nations' in certain parts of the world only become nations when they have been reconstructed in the image of their creators. There is only one possible model and no deviations are acceptable.…
Health Minister must release cash (Free article)
29 October 2009
THE funding badly needed to provide intensive care unit beds for life-saving operations at Crumlin Children's Hospital must be released by Health Minister Mary Harney, Sinn Féin Health & Children spokesperson Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin has demanded. Ó Caoláin said that the case of two-year-old Joy Lawlor Doyle, who is awaiting heart surgery, has…
Cúlchaint LE EOGHAN Mac CORMAIC (Free article)
29 October 2009
An tseachtain seo caite labhair Caitríona Ruane, Aire Oideachais an Tuaiscirt sa Titanic Pump-House le grúpa ón earnáil oideachas inar phléigh sí ceisteanna oideachas iarbhunscoile, réamhscoile, an Teist Aistrithe agus oideachas trí Ghaeilge. San alt seo déantar achoimre ar na pointí is tábhachtach as óráid a bhí, gan amhras, tábhachtach agus…
Stoneyford loyalist's computer seized (Free article)
29 October 2009
THE PSNI have confirmed that computer equipment and other items were seized from the County Antrim home of leading loyalist 'hard man' Mark Harbinson. A spokesperson for the PSNI acknowledged that a number of items, including computer equipment, had been taken away for further examination from the house near Stoneyford, nine miles from Belfast.
More than a game BY MATT TREACY (Free article)
29 October 2009
WATCHING the Dublin City Marathon always reminds me of how old I am getting. I did it in 1999, in just over three-and-a-half hours, but doubt that I would get as far as ten miles now. The idea then that others can complete in around two hours and ten minutes puts one's own paltry achievements into perspective. Finishing in that time means that a…
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